Tape Machines and Tapes
With both the highest quality tape machines ever made and a range of premium tape to choose from we can provide each client with the sought after genuine tape saturation and analog warmth that cannot be properly reproduced by tape emulator plugins.
The purpose of the tape machines at Intonation is to provide lossless analog quality ... digital audio, while improving, is limited by its sampling rates and bit depths, and still cannot compete with high-end analogue audio as the perfect medium for sound reproduction.
Endless Audio’s CLASP system, coupled with our Studer tape machines, allows us to preserve the quality of analog while simultaneously enabling editing via ProTools, Nuendo and Logic.
TAPE MACHINES
Studer A827 Gold Edition 24 track Recorder/Reproducer
Studer A812 Recorder/Reproducer
Studer A807 Recorder/Reproducer
Revox PR99 Tape Recorder
Uher 4000 Tape Machine
Magnetic Tape
Quantegy GP9 Grand Master Plantinum
Quantegy 499 Grand Master Gold
Quantegy 480 Audio Mastering
Ampex 499 Grand Master Gold
RMG9 Studio Master
BASF 496 Grand Master
BASF 468 Studio Master
BASF DPR 26 Pro
Endless Analogue Clasp 24s (x2)
CLASP is a unique system for seamlessly integrating tape machines with digital audio workstations, meaning you can edit and fine-tune audio with modern digital tools while preserving the quality of the analog realm.
While CLASP is usually used in recording studios, we are using this system slightly differently. At Intonation we can work with pre-recorded analog audio, preserving the quality of your recordings, or we can enhance your digital recordings by transfer to tape.
Each desk at Intonation has its own CLASP system so we can protect your audio in its analogue form while transferring between them.
For more on how the CLASP system works please visit the Endless Analog website, click here.
Outboard
The mastering phase is the last process before a project is released to the public, and the final opportunity to improve the quality of the sound. Nowadays, digital plugins are the norm, but audio quality can be greatly improved by using the original hardware upon which most plugins are based.
The effect that high-end electrical circuitry has on a signal still cannot, to this day, be properly replicated 'in the box'.
Consequently Intonation has chosen to use only the best analog equipment, to give our clients' audio the focus it deserves.
AMPLIFICATION
Knif, Grace Design, Avalon, Chord
COMPRESSION
Knif, Shadow Hills, Avalon, Thermionic Culture
EFFECTS AND PROCESSING
TC Electronics System 6000 Mark 2, Clasp, Lexicon, Bricasti, Avalon, Weiss
EQ
Knif, Avalon, Weiss
CONVERSION
Antelope, Apogee, Trinnov
CLOCKING
Antelope 10M, Antelope Isochrome
AUDIO
Trinnov Amethyst, Trinnov ST2, Antelope Zodiac
CABLING
Cabling is often overlooked as playing a major role in the quality of signal flow. Here at Intonation we understand cabling to be as important as any other aspect of the studio: we regard it as the arteries of the entire system.
For this reason throughout Intonation all the cabling is the best available: VOVOX®’s Sonorus. We chose VOVOX®’s Sonorus because of the pristine signal transmission associated with this cabling, the cutting edge solid core conductors inside the cables and the high quality of the materials they are made of. Intonation holds the Vovox Purum award: wired strictly with Vovox.
Software
We generally like to steer away from using plugins and emulations of physical hardware, as we have a large range of outboard gear to work with.
However, we understand that a client might want a specific type of sound generated from a plugin for a special effect. Because of this we have a large library of software plugins available to suit clients’ preferences.
We also offer a range of platforms to work from. While Pro Tools is the industry standard we understand that clients might be using another platform.
Software
Waves Complete
Weiss Saracen
Celemony Capstan
Celemony Melodyne
DAWS
Pro Tools 11 HDX
Nuendo 6.5
Logic 9
Ableton Live Suite 9
Monitors
Monitoring in any mastering studio is particularly important. We need to have an accurate representation of a finished project and it is for this reason that we have chosen the monitors with care and calibrated them precisely.
Having a flat, full-band frequency response, accurate phase response and controlled dynamics are essential to providing our clients with the specific sound they need for their projects.
Having accurate and rich playback devices is critical when validating a project to see if it translates across all mediums.
Headphones are essential for critical listening and for checking issues which might not be as noticeable through monitors. They eliminate issues arising from the spatial interaction in the studio.
Monitoring
Graham Audio Custom Build LS5/9s
Klein & Hummel O300D
Focal SM9
Eclipse TD508MK3
Headphones
Ultrasone S-Logic Edition 10
Ultrasone Edition 8 S-Logic
Ultrasone S-Logic Signiture Pro
Playback
Bowers & Wilkins
Bang & Olufsen
VPI Scout with Moon Phono pre amps